This announcement is for users of the old site design which was previouslyaccessible at http://former.imdb.com/ and via a registration preference.

In February 2007 the IMDb site design was updated and for the last 16 monthswe have provided options to allow people to access the old design. As oftoday the old design is no longer available, sorry. The old design was alwaysa temporary unsupported interface which we were willing to offer as long asthe support costs remained low. Unfortunately a growing amount of staff timewas being consumed in dealing with issues arising from the old design. Alsothe divergence between feature sets on the two designs was starting to becomea problem with photos, trailers, FAQs, parental guides, character pages andnews (amongst other things) all unavailable on the old design.

Usage of the old design has fallen to only 0.012% of IMDb users and so it nolonger makes sense to keep it around. We can use the time saved to improvethe experience for the 99.988% of users who are already using the new design.For similar reasons we have also removed the option to hide the photos on thenew design.

We appreciate that this change will not be popular with those people whoprefer the old design and we're sorry about that. Please take a second lookat the new design and give yourselves some time to get used to it; there aremany new features which you will not have seen before. Note that we addressedthe issue of plot keyword spoilers in the new design yesterday, as announcedhere:

http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000040/flat/108758245

If you have any constructive suggestions on features which could beadded/modified in the new design, please let us know.